at midnight moscow time misery for marco in portugal the german chancellor is greeted with public anger and blame for the austerity strangling their country it follows mass protests in greece against the cuts demanded by international lenders . israeli its military targets in syria in response to mortar shells landing on its territory with spillover from syria's civil war blamed for shattering the decades long truce between the two states. pvc chiefs go through the grinder was botched child abuse claims leave the public out for blood with tempers flaring afresh over reports of squandered millions. and the sex scandal that saw the cia chief quit sends a wave of suspicion that the affair is just a part of a much bigger political cover up because my comment on that is

a. very good morning for me kevin only if you just joined us this is our live from moscow and first protests have started in portugal's capital lisbon tonight where chancellor angela merkel's visiting people there blame the german leader for the nation's economic hardships the country may face a credit rating downgrade to think she has issued a negative outlook today sarah firth reports from the country's capital. political mice of being more tolerant of the all star team measures imposed on lead in the past in that seventy eight billion year i bet they'll know you won't welcome here today the german chancellor angela merkel is the crowds have turned up to protest against austerity measures that she's been having of the day when the country's

president and prime minister that the government has a very strong from popular handle it to kill all the fish and take the measures that they've been trying to patient who should go on the brink right now than placing the severest budget that they've had in recent times because in two days you're going to see a general strike not just the quote you go but also another year are you saying countries as well where you can see how many. times that we'll start the message that angle of merkel's being delivering a huge amount of people on the face carrying that data is going to go very much wanted fibrosis wanted by germany to be that southern european success story that of course is the recession continues political about financial year the session we seeing the anger against the uses largely is pretty lancing here in the country and i was joined by a crisis or why you turning out to protest today these measures have been killing

is do you think it has no future it's only for carriage unemployment and misery there's a lot of signs against bangle merkel why do you think this image anger towards her in particular one of the conductors of hers that she just keeps pushing and pushing and pushing for governments to do this when you try for swallow the sentiment that you see at cape it was angle of merkel throughout europe at the moment as countries struggle with the recession i think it's even deeper into that cycle of austerity that people say really choking off any chance of the country's growth. so. debt ridden greece may get two more years to fulfill the preconditions for a new bailout that's come out tonight's according to a document drafted to the euro group gathering in brussels over all of the yanik spoke to me he's from germany's party of reason he thinks the euro zone's already beyond repair and angle of merkel's optimistic messages aren't going to change that either oh they she does not think that it's working she is not optimistic she is

just lying to the people this is what politicians usually do all the life of the people she knows that portugal can never pay back. you cannot avoid bankruptcy these countries are all bankrupt they trust have to declare than that of the public but they warn of course that got to the people and to the country but the harm would be even greater if you delay to drop out of the euro so better to drop out of the paper money system that's harm there's no way to avoid this paper money collapse goes this way so you can't avoid the harm. and there's more on europe's economic and legal turbulence in artie's business bulletin later this full update coming here dimitri that's right we've got the story of italian prosecutors basically buying a lawsuit against the stand and board and fitch rating agencies for manipulating the market during sovereign rating cuts and we're looking at how this could

potentially change the way rates as well. and that's about twenty five minutes back to the present the syrian conflict continues to break its borders with israel now feeling the ripple effect the jewish state fired missiles over the border for two consecutive days in response to mortar shells landing in the golan heights is artie's pulis lier. a mortar shell landed in an open area near the vicinity of in his lady defense force a military base in the occupied golan heights it did not cause any injuries or damage but israel immediately responded and fired shells now according to israeli military sources they did hit a syrian mobile artillery but we have no more information at this stage in connection with that but certainly the israeli army confirming that they were direct hits taken on the syrian side now the audio has also issued a complaint with the united nations forces in the area they say that any kind of

fire into israel from syria will not be tolerated and that israel will deal with this in the harshest terms this is the second straight day that they has been in water fired from syria landing in northern israel the first incident saw israel responding with warning shots but what is significantly different today is that we are witnessing direct hits now there has been a truce in place between israel and syria since nine hundred seventy three and for the better part of the last four decades there has been an easy peace between these two countries but this latest incident certainly is sending alarm bells and people are significantly worried that the situation could escape having said this is all does not believe that the mortars that landed in israeli territory were targeted to wards as well but they're rather they are the by products of the fighting that is happening inside syria between rebel forces and forces loyal to the syrian president bashar assad. of the gulf states that have recognized the new rebel

coalition as a legitimate representative of the syrian people the body was formed after tomorrow from told to various opposition factions and cartels capital the deals the result of relentless pressure from the u.s. and its european and arab allies who want to see the current syrian regime toppled some analysts are questioning whether the newly formed rebel coalition is actually to. the syrian people's interests really into account. from the very beginning of the conflict in syria the big question is how much influence do these groups outside of syria actually have within syria and i think there's a strong argument to say that they don't have much widespread support within syria i think a fundamental point which is being missed is that the future affairs of an independent sovereign country are being discussed by foreign governments in a foreign country that is absolutely outrageous we're talking about the united nations the pillars of the united nation state sovereignty being completely

undermines i mean if there was a domestic crisis for example in spain would it be acceptable for foreign governments to convene in rome the capital bitterly to discuss the future affairs of spain it's absolutely outrageous and it's also illegal ones international who are. the u.k.'s top general or suggested the british troops are on standby to intervene in syria in the case of a worsening humanitarian situation in the country but some british politicians argue the crisis will only deteriorate further with foreign action. well the humanitarian situation is very bad in new york only solution to the humanitarian crisis is a ceasefire the cease fire isn't going to come about if western forces intervene there will make the situation markedly worse we've had interventions in i understand iraq and libya and there's been a huge loss of life that's followed from that there is no stomach amongst the ordinary people of britain for british forces to be involved in yet another war

this has to be solved as i say politically and it can only be solved politically if the big powers all of whom have close relations with either syria turkey iran or the neighboring countries get together and promote an effective ceasefire the political future of syria that has to be the way for the intervention absolutely no way intervention is not going to bring about peace it will only prolong the conflict. check out r.t. dot com for more analysis and the first time reports from syria there you'll also find a timeline of the long running civil conflict. maybe season about way botched journalism falls child abuse accusations and revelations of decades of paedophilia and seeing a number of key executives feel the heat right now the broadcasters head of news and a deputy of the latest to step aside today just days after the director general quit is there a smith reports from london. the director general george resigned over the weekend

saying that he felt it was the honorable thing to do but what might not be seen as the honorable thing to do is that he's currently taking all four hundred fifty thousand pounds of his yearly pay packets despite having been in the job only fifty four days and of course much of that fifty four days he spent some would say in effect actually trying to fight these fires to keep on breaking out of the b.b.c. and that money will be paid by the taxpayer just the latest thing is these allegations by a man called steve meston who said that he was repeatedly sexually abused as a child by a senior politician that was reported on the b.b.c.'s flagship current affairs program news night and all it only off to that was this steve messam showing a photograph of lord mcalpine and he said oh no actually i'm sorry i was mistaken it wasn't him after all and that haven't been enough in itself of of the jimmy savile scandal again newsnight had done an investigation into jimmy savile who was

a much loved children's entertainer back when i was growing up which essentially exposed him as a paedophile that program though was spiked by b.b.c. leadership they were ordered to drop it at least in part because other parts of the b.b.c. were preparing a programme that said how wonderful jimmy savile was done of course it's not just news that the b.b.c. does they do a range of programs nature documentaries etc etc so it has been a much loved it loved institution and people hope i think that this change of management will will make that be so again let's have a listen to what they say i still follow b.b.c. news and stuff it doesn't yeah it's true i still trust is an easy sell we wouldn't deter me from using b.b.c. as an easy thing you see a shipping here on the search is something that really is very unfortunate you can't control the child i was asian for one reason so i still trust me by broadcasting what i hear going into the latest news we will with different. for a while at least the b.b.c.

over a number of years has made a series of blunders and been involved in a number of decisions which have shown somewhat poor judgment. to do with the reporting of the conflict in the middle east and also an incident surrounding syria where the b.b.c. used a photograph that was taken in iraq in two thousand and three but used it to illustrate a massacre in the syrian city of houla and there was also back in two thousand and three a very serious instance where a b.b.c. journalist revealed that dr david kelly was the source for his report that the government had sex stop the dossier on the weapons of mass destruction in iraq which of course led to the invasion of iraq. after being outed in that way was subsequently found dead again in the wake of that the director general resigned but this is this is an erosion of trust really that's been going back for some years. or smith is not so sweet for many u.k. citizens whose days it seems as well we find out why more and more skilled work is

essential for better lives uprooted could leave britain scrambling for professional one of the many stories of the break. catalonia wants to get its independence from the rest of spain locals feel that madrid texas of catalonia economic success is a way putting the region into debt trust me hard only to have it all taxed away is very aggravating i can see why people are frustrated but the people who want independence have a very odd slogan catalonia a new european state so let me get this straight you want independence but you want to stay in the e.u. is that what you mean what exactly would that change that's not really gaining independence that shifting dependencies staying in the e.u. means you won't have control of your borders you'll still be on the euro c.

won't have your own currency you will be able to establish your trade standards those will be dictated to you by brussels and if you don't like the austerity measures from outsiders like in madrid then you might want have a conversation with the greeks because being an independent country in the e.u. won't save you from people messing with your finances all i'm saying is that being truly independent means answer to no one not madrid not brussels but that's just my opinion.

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attack that were at that time unknown to the public she gave a speech at the end of october fifth now when everybody knows that she had an affair with a general many are guessing whether those details that she revealed in her speech were part of their pillow talk take a listen i don't know of a lot of you heard this but the cia annex had actually had taken a couple of libyan militia members prisoner in and they think that the attack on the consulate was an effort to try to get these prisoners back so that it's still being vetted the challenging thing for general petraeus is that in his new position he's not allowed to communicate with the press by the way the cia adamantly denies the allegations that they held prisoners at the consulate in benghazi and nobody at that point heard anything about the cia holding prisoners in benghazi but everybody knew about the access that paula broadwell had to the general because she was his biographer now it turns out that she had an even greater access to the general when general petraeus was signed he cited his own extremely poor judgment and some are wondering why. their poor judgment was just about the affair or it could also be

about having shared more with his mistress than just as a gentleman together there's another twist to this is doing apparently paula broadwell was not the kind to keep things to herself the f.b.i. were investigating her allegedly caressing the e-mail sent to another woman who also happens to know general petraeus and as officials here are saying that's how they found out about the affair general petraeus was idolized the public had to go through a similar trauma if you will with the other again and then general who was also idolized in many ways general stanley mcchrystal he fell from grace and resigned when the rolling stone magazine quoted him saying unflattering things around the administration from the media here of course we've seen all over the tree of stand over when they learned that there was another woman involved it got them spinning all over again with her discussions about the level of the stall story and effects of man's judgment on all kinds of things they savored every detail of this story

and one thing that was actually said to watch is that what the agency and i mean the cia is actually doing doesn't get that much coverage things like how they pick the targets because targeted assassination program things that the public should want to know it's national security and it's secret but when he comes to the director's bedroom all of a sudden everybody wants to know and the media are there to question every detail of the affair as far as let's say collateral damage from cia drone strikes not as interested. i think you can with the view there from washington d.c. this gets more thoughts and gets more perspective now from the. former generals predicament and the timing of it all we talked to a former pentagon official michael maloof is joining us on the line indeed again from washington d.c. michael good evening to you well it certainly gone down as naomi paula broadwell's and father is going around now saying there's a whole lot more to this scandal and that the truth he says will eventually come

out was he talking about you think. well there's probably a lot more. in terms of the relationship between broadwell and the general and and i'm sure that there are probably other women and this is what the security investigation needs to ascertain. with someone at that level in government with holding those kind of clearances. any fraternization with or outside affairs is almost grant grounds for automatic suspension or revocation of your clearances and the fact that. this wasn't even reported for months. to the higher levels is in itself a scandal it was probably a political decision to protect the the president. but that decision of be made to try and cover this up if a cover up was going on as we think it was. if

there was i would say that at least the attorney general should have been informed he worked after all the f.b.i. works for him they report directly to him and certainly the director of national intelligence should have been informed not on the evening of the election but should have been informed almost immediately when they came across some very incriminating information it's been my experience that when something like this occurs the person who is the target is suspended from clearances is told to take thirty days off and while they investigate further and the bosses are informed immediately the fact that this was did not occur in pretoria is this case and it occurred almost immediately after he became the cia director i think smells of political intrigue yeah next question is why isn't it why what's interesting here is that the f.b.i. probably was aware of what was going on as there is this which is roughly when

petraeus ended the affair why was it kept under wraps for so long. i think that the argument i'm hearing from the f.b.i. is that they needed to vet it thoroughly and understand and understand what the what was the parameter of the and the extent of the of the affair or whether there was any criminal investigation criminal wrongdoing and also the potential for cyber hacking that was the initial thought but once they discovered that there indeed was an affair it should have still been reported because even though it might not be a violation of federal law it is a violation of your security clearances and they should have at least been suspended it's funny isn't it the more successful you are the more later the year for the u.s. generals are often held up as true american patriots yet to search chancellor of the u.s. what iraq here on the other an afghan war hero of both seemingly petty scandals if you think there was more to the demise than does really mean.

well i can't take away from the fact that both generals had stellar careers and did did and were exceptional generals and and help in the resolution of the and the and the iraqi wars on the other hand when they leave when they leave the military in particular and contrary is this case all that discipline goes away there's no way that he could have conducted an affair while he was in afghanistan surrounded by all of his people all the time there was there's never any hardly any moment for privacy over there so i this had to have occurred after he put away his uniform and became a civilian and that and that discipline leaves you when you're sort of left wondering specially when you've been a military person for the better part of your professional career and i probably felt that there was no violation here and you could conduct this conduct this affair and. and the problem with that is that when you have the level of the

clearances and you have that position you have to be you're still living in a glass cage final quick thought we might call we've got the cia best to get in the affairs of potential security leaks have been talking about that the f.b.i. even the senate given patris is pristine record and his devotion to america is not all of it over the top. know they need to investigate whether there indeed was any. as your commentator pointed out pillow talk in which some classified information was conveyed now i can't attest to what she reported what would broadwell reported in that someone are that you just recorded but what i do know about the facility was that it was that it was a cia. post and they were and the eight and the two seals who were killed along with our ambassador in benghazi were actually out looking for weapons and

particularly surface to air weapons and some of which have now shown up in syria i might add and. the even though they were former seals they were on contract with cia in the house indeed was still used by the by the agency and the fact that she even would have knowledge that there was a cia facility in and of itself is supposed to be considered classified you know as we would run on this one here is that michael believe things your thoughts get over the program a former pentagon official is pretty shaky now we're also covering developments in patris is scandalized as well you can spot the investigation against a former cia boss and whether his indiscretions were. maybe to help the above account. or to take a look at reporting too but a tirade of moscow that seeing the police arrest six members of islam this group linked to al qaeda is accused of fueling extremism here in russia and. now britain's brain drain could soon leave the country desperately short of skilled

workers that's according to a recent report suggesting the number of professionals chasing work abroad is sold in the past two decades. looks at why a for u.k. citizens home is no longer where the work is. london one of the cool overall financial sense says it was even voted the best place to visit on the won it last year but it looks like fewer people want to actually live in britain the u.k. home office has just released a report that says that and freezing the number of executives scientists and academics are choosing to leave earth said last year alone some one hundred fifty thousand new cases this isn't emigrates today the seas and now some five million brits live aboard and don't blame the unpredictable weather or the local cuisine experts now think that it's the high rates of taxation and the cost of living that

could drive even more brits to move abroad people with the motor of the economy are people with a lot of property but perhaps with an education perhaps with ambition as well we need to keep them in the country you have to face a life of living in london on a very small with a gross wage maybe even small of our taxation to a mic wage. which we fail as a country and perhaps some sort of system of graduated tax allowances might help us cope perhaps most alarming for the politicians who office findings that the majority of the people that opt out of think you take rat race do so also when the overall lifestyle choice signalling and see this intense with living standards here in britain that's not what. we call a national government to slow things for me consider moving abroad to avoid big government slacking off and taking away the good things from the people that

earning a little bit more even though it's through hard work and dedication over here is that you work until you drop that they don't want to reward us so what's the point of continuing companies are already complaining that they find it hard to find a highly skilled prospect. no foreigners to work in the u.k. because of the u.k. government's cap on migration in order to cut immigration into the country now the growing number of young ambitious brits hopping that might leave the british government wondering well that. was. culture with dimitris here now in the studio for business politics of a couple of minutes after the break she's preview the big look at a lawsuit against top rating agencies italy yeah that's right they're filing a lawsuit against the standard and poor's and against fitch for basically manipulating the market during the time when their ratings were cut but also we're looking at a report which suggests that maybe soon a top or oil and gas producer other than saudi arabia and that would be the united

states as weird as it may sound but i have more on that in a couple of minutes already. remains in this tree even for specialists how a voice can produce several sounds it wants to do remains the art of throat singing comes naturally picked up like a language. a language of communicating with nature it said that's where throat singing originates from t.v. news believe not only animals but also surrounded objects like reverse forests and even stones souls.